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hazelchazSunday, part 2 of 2.
(See Part 1 to start at the beginning of this report.)
When I got back to the SECC on Sunday afternoon, I went into Hall 2 and starting snapping everything, as Ewan Chrysal had asked me to take pictures of the exhibits. I ran into Doug Herring who said he had Masquerade photos for me. And Tom Galloway suggested himself for future inclusion in the Fan Gallery.
At the "Anticipation - Montreal in 2009" table, Linda Ross-Mansfield pointed out the red and white Canadian maple-leaf "Smarties, eh?" which celebrated Smarties being the number 1 candy-coated chocolate candy. In other words, they've kept M&M's out of that position...
I took pictures of all of the fan tables and exhibits in Hall 2 on Sunday; some of them weren't manned. For example, nobody was at the Welsh Science Fiction Association table.
Borys Sydiuk was promoting the Ukraine convention "NewCon 3." Jamie Scott was sitting at the "Concussion" (Eastercon 2006) table. It'll be here in Glasgow, at the Moat House.
Sherri A. Beyke was the person on duty at the Xerps in 2010 bid table. Appropriate for the "Spaceport Glasgow" theme, this bid proposes to have the Worldcon in Capital City on the planet Xerps. They had free postcards showing different colorful sights on Xerps, and two full-color brochures about tourism on Xerps. Since interstellar transport will take two years of travel to get to Xerps, they plan on two transport charters: the sleeper ship, and the party ship. You can elect to hibernate for the voyage, and arrive at the first extrasolar Worldcon refreshed and rested; or you can choose to spend the whole two years awake, and get a headstart on your Worldcon partying. An interesting choice.
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inter_action, Kevin Standlee was the captain of the WSFS Armadillo. He had a captain's uniform and everything. (Kevin was in charge of Events, that is, everything happening in the Armadillo. "Project X" was the plan to identify the Armadillo as the White Star Federated Spaceways ship, and the exhibition centre area as "Spaceport Glasgow." They even made up reflective safety vests with Glasgow Spaceport Authority printed on the back.) There was also a Captain's Aide: Lisa Hayes (that is, Mrs. Kevin) had a sailor suit of her own that she wore to some of the events. Today, though, she was wearing a "WSFS Armadillo" t-shirt from the cafepress website. So was Bear, her convention-going teddy bear. (Small size, not big like me.)
The Masquerade and Events desks were situated next to the Masquerade Exhibit, with various costumes from conventions past. One of these was Lias Bluestone, a troll musician from the "Music with Rocks In" in Terry Pratchett's Soul Music. Alan Cash posed with one of the costumes he'd made from the night before: Sek-wen-za, warrior dinosaur priestess of the Exaan. This was the costume with the dinosaur head whose eyes lit up.
I ran into Anders Frihagen when I was in Hall 3 by the Fan Galley, and asked who the big movers and shakers in Norwegian fandom were. He suggested Hermann in Oslo, but didn't remember Hermann's surname. Does anyone know who Hermann might be?
Kim Kofmel suggests that Bill Parker from Houston tech fandom might be a good addition to the exhibit. He's president of Friends of Fandom Inc., the 501(c)(3) non-profit that umbrellas Apollocon.
The UK Worldcon display had places to sign if you were at those Worldcons. I saw Eddie Cochrane signing one of the sheets. They had some various mementos of the UK Worldcons, including a Hotel Manager Joke Wall. (The 1987 Worldcon, Conspiracy, had some problems with their hotel manager...)
Susan Parker and Ashley Pollard were dressed with uniforms vaguely reminiscent of USAF uniforms. They were Stargate uniforms, based on their interpretation of costumes from the movie and the tv show.
The Groats -- Gopher Refreshment Tickets -- were the currency of the convention, given out by the Gopher Hole for every hour volunteered. So it encouraged everyone, even area heads like myself, to have their supervisors sign off on their hours worked. They were accepted at the SECC's own concession stands (but not all of the snack stands in the SECC), and the Moat House's Real Ale Bar. Including the snack counter at the back end of the Real Ale Bar area, where you could get hot sausage rolls (that is, a roll cut in half with two hot sausages on it) and other snacks, nutriciously filling or decadently sweet. Well, they had chocolate bars, anyway. When![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
library_lynn and I realized this, we got our hours signed off, our groats issued, and started buying bottled water and jacket potatos with them. I cashed in 7 groats just so I could get 5 bottles of water... It's a shame that the groats didn't work at the chocolate stand. I had to settle for a hot dog instead.
I spoke to Shell Majury at the Internet Lounge. Hall 2 had a set-up with several computers (more than Noreascon 4 had), and a reservation system to sign up for a timeslot. I also heard through the grapevine that the Fan Lounge at the Real Ale Bar had quietly set up a free wi-fi rig, but didn't go over to investigate. My limiting factor at this point was not finding the time to go there, or to The Goat; it was finding the time to sit and write up a day's adventures in order to post them. Once I've finished transcribing a day's worth of notes, I've been posting them to LJ in fairly short order, all things considered!
Brit fan Wilf James apparently is quite popular among German fandom; the Germans have raised up a fund to sponsor Wilf to travel tolaconiv next year.
Macmillan Cancer Relief, the convention's designated charity, had a booth where you could get your picture taken with a Cyberman and a Tardis (the controls on the inside, or the phonebooth exterior) if you made a donation. I think the suggested minimum donation was 5 pounds. I snapped a surreptitious picture as I went by.
The ZZ9 club had a display, and had a display case with number of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy props and souvenirs. Including Trillian's costume, the box of Starbix cereal, and Humma Kavela's glasses. (See also the post thatflickgc put up just before the convention about the goodies she'd collected for the display.)
The daily newszine, Port Authority, had a wall next to their offices where they were posting each issue in colour. Nice to be able to see what the photos looked like before they printed them on low-grade black and white. The newszine could only get into their work area during the SECC's hours -- this meant that they had to be out of there by about 21:00 each night, and couldn't get in until the following morning. They've uploaded most or all of their issues as PDF files to distraction.org.uk if I remember correctly.
Young fans Leah Heywood and Tiggy Jeffcock were investigating the stand-up in the history display where there's an alien holding a Hugo award marked "Mine" and a cut-out space to put your head through. I encouraged them to pose with it. While I was taking the picture and writing their names down, a rover from Ops came up behind me. He was trying to look around me and see my badge, and finally asked if I was Chaz. I admitted it, and was told there was an APB out for me to talk to Ops. I checked in, and learned that there was a situation with the floodlights for the Forth Room photo area -- they were missing.
More later.
(See Part 1 to start at the beginning of this report.)
When I got back to the SECC on Sunday afternoon, I went into Hall 2 and starting snapping everything, as Ewan Chrysal had asked me to take pictures of the exhibits. I ran into Doug Herring who said he had Masquerade photos for me. And Tom Galloway suggested himself for future inclusion in the Fan Gallery.
At the "Anticipation - Montreal in 2009" table, Linda Ross-Mansfield pointed out the red and white Canadian maple-leaf "Smarties, eh?" which celebrated Smarties being the number 1 candy-coated chocolate candy. In other words, they've kept M&M's out of that position...
I took pictures of all of the fan tables and exhibits in Hall 2 on Sunday; some of them weren't manned. For example, nobody was at the Welsh Science Fiction Association table.
Borys Sydiuk was promoting the Ukraine convention "NewCon 3." Jamie Scott was sitting at the "Concussion" (Eastercon 2006) table. It'll be here in Glasgow, at the Moat House.
Sherri A. Beyke was the person on duty at the Xerps in 2010 bid table. Appropriate for the "Spaceport Glasgow" theme, this bid proposes to have the Worldcon in Capital City on the planet Xerps. They had free postcards showing different colorful sights on Xerps, and two full-color brochures about tourism on Xerps. Since interstellar transport will take two years of travel to get to Xerps, they plan on two transport charters: the sleeper ship, and the party ship. You can elect to hibernate for the voyage, and arrive at the first extrasolar Worldcon refreshed and rested; or you can choose to spend the whole two years awake, and get a headstart on your Worldcon partying. An interesting choice.
At
inter_action, Kevin Standlee was the captain of the WSFS Armadillo. He had a captain's uniform and everything. (Kevin was in charge of Events, that is, everything happening in the Armadillo. "Project X" was the plan to identify the Armadillo as the White Star Federated Spaceways ship, and the exhibition centre area as "Spaceport Glasgow." They even made up reflective safety vests with Glasgow Spaceport Authority printed on the back.) There was also a Captain's Aide: Lisa Hayes (that is, Mrs. Kevin) had a sailor suit of her own that she wore to some of the events. Today, though, she was wearing a "WSFS Armadillo" t-shirt from the cafepress website. So was Bear, her convention-going teddy bear. (Small size, not big like me.)The Masquerade and Events desks were situated next to the Masquerade Exhibit, with various costumes from conventions past. One of these was Lias Bluestone, a troll musician from the "Music with Rocks In" in Terry Pratchett's Soul Music. Alan Cash posed with one of the costumes he'd made from the night before: Sek-wen-za, warrior dinosaur priestess of the Exaan. This was the costume with the dinosaur head whose eyes lit up.
I ran into Anders Frihagen when I was in Hall 3 by the Fan Galley, and asked who the big movers and shakers in Norwegian fandom were. He suggested Hermann in Oslo, but didn't remember Hermann's surname. Does anyone know who Hermann might be?
Kim Kofmel suggests that Bill Parker from Houston tech fandom might be a good addition to the exhibit. He's president of Friends of Fandom Inc., the 501(c)(3) non-profit that umbrellas Apollocon.
The UK Worldcon display had places to sign if you were at those Worldcons. I saw Eddie Cochrane signing one of the sheets. They had some various mementos of the UK Worldcons, including a Hotel Manager Joke Wall. (The 1987 Worldcon, Conspiracy, had some problems with their hotel manager...)
Susan Parker and Ashley Pollard were dressed with uniforms vaguely reminiscent of USAF uniforms. They were Stargate uniforms, based on their interpretation of costumes from the movie and the tv show.
The Groats -- Gopher Refreshment Tickets -- were the currency of the convention, given out by the Gopher Hole for every hour volunteered. So it encouraged everyone, even area heads like myself, to have their supervisors sign off on their hours worked. They were accepted at the SECC's own concession stands (but not all of the snack stands in the SECC), and the Moat House's Real Ale Bar. Including the snack counter at the back end of the Real Ale Bar area, where you could get hot sausage rolls (that is, a roll cut in half with two hot sausages on it) and other snacks, nutriciously filling or decadently sweet. Well, they had chocolate bars, anyway. When
library_lynn and I realized this, we got our hours signed off, our groats issued, and started buying bottled water and jacket potatos with them. I cashed in 7 groats just so I could get 5 bottles of water... It's a shame that the groats didn't work at the chocolate stand. I had to settle for a hot dog instead.I spoke to Shell Majury at the Internet Lounge. Hall 2 had a set-up with several computers (more than Noreascon 4 had), and a reservation system to sign up for a timeslot. I also heard through the grapevine that the Fan Lounge at the Real Ale Bar had quietly set up a free wi-fi rig, but didn't go over to investigate. My limiting factor at this point was not finding the time to go there, or to The Goat; it was finding the time to sit and write up a day's adventures in order to post them. Once I've finished transcribing a day's worth of notes, I've been posting them to LJ in fairly short order, all things considered!
Brit fan Wilf James apparently is quite popular among German fandom; the Germans have raised up a fund to sponsor Wilf to travel to
laconiv next year.Macmillan Cancer Relief, the convention's designated charity, had a booth where you could get your picture taken with a Cyberman and a Tardis (the controls on the inside, or the phonebooth exterior) if you made a donation. I think the suggested minimum donation was 5 pounds. I snapped a surreptitious picture as I went by.
The ZZ9 club had a display, and had a display case with number of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy props and souvenirs. Including Trillian's costume, the box of Starbix cereal, and Humma Kavela's glasses. (See also the post that
flickgc put up just before the convention about the goodies she'd collected for the display.)The daily newszine, Port Authority, had a wall next to their offices where they were posting each issue in colour. Nice to be able to see what the photos looked like before they printed them on low-grade black and white. The newszine could only get into their work area during the SECC's hours -- this meant that they had to be out of there by about 21:00 each night, and couldn't get in until the following morning. They've uploaded most or all of their issues as PDF files to distraction.org.uk if I remember correctly.
Young fans Leah Heywood and Tiggy Jeffcock were investigating the stand-up in the history display where there's an alien holding a Hugo award marked "Mine" and a cut-out space to put your head through. I encouraged them to pose with it. While I was taking the picture and writing their names down, a rover from Ops came up behind me. He was trying to look around me and see my badge, and finally asked if I was Chaz. I admitted it, and was told there was an APB out for me to talk to Ops. I checked in, and learned that there was a situation with the floodlights for the Forth Room photo area -- they were missing.
More later.
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Music with rocks in
Date: 2005-08-11 03:00 pm (UTC)I discovered I had an inactive LiveJournal lying around; so I've activated it. How are you & Lynn enjoying the Highlands & West Coast of Scotland?? How are the Midgies? Hope you've got plenty of 'Jungle Formula' with you!
Allan MacBain aka TesterScot aka Al An dea'Bibliomanic (Clan KaHoonah)
Missing Floodlights
Date: 2005-08-11 03:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-11 03:42 pm (UTC)I must be hungry; the sausage rolls sound good.
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Date: 2005-08-11 03:58 pm (UTC)They had run a very successfull, quiet, but boozy party on the 4th floor of the Hilton, the night before. I'm not surprised none of them made it down to staff the table.